OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Manuscript Leaf with Initial M, from a Missal” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:45 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Manuscript Leaf with Initial M, from a Missal

Manuscript Leaf with Initial M, from a Missal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a sketchbook, by Grace D. Holt Newton

Leaf from a sketchbook

Grace D. Holt Newton · June 28, 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with the Crucifixion, from a Missal

Manuscript Leaf with the Crucifixion, from a Missal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1270–80

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · early–mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Missal

Missal

Artist not stated in the record · 1472

Public domainThe Met
Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

Illustration for the Poem ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat’

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with Initial A, from a Gradual

Manuscript Leaf with Initial A, from a Gradual

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

Public domainThe Met
3c 150th Anniversary of Ohio Statehood plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

3c 150th Anniversary of Ohio Statehood plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · February 16, 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Red skullcap with leaf appliqué, by Jelleff's, American, 1910 - 1979

Red skullcap with leaf appliqué

Jelleff's, American, 1910 - 1979 · 1940s - 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1869–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with the Dedication of a Church in an Initial T, from a Gradual, by Mariano del Buono

Manuscript Leaf with the Dedication of a Church in an Initial T, from a Gradual

Mariano del Buono · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Handkerchief

Handkerchief

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary, by Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius

Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary

Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf from a Missal

Manuscript Leaf from a Missal

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
4c St. Lawrence Seaway plate proof, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

4c St. Lawrence Seaway plate proof

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · April 3, 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with the Initial M, from an Antiphonary

Manuscript Leaf with the Initial M, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Parinirvana of Buddha, from a Prajnaparamita manuscript

Parinirvana of Buddha, from a Prajnaparamita manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Vase After the Antique, by Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835

Vase After the Antique

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, French, 1753–1835 · 1789-1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 448 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2851215 matched · 40 examined · 27 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:45 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.